#I love primates!!!!!!

[the-purple-auxiliatrix]

All of my Primate Plushies together!!

I love monkeys/apes/primate species so much

primate plushies soothe my soul

[teaboot]

My terminal manic pixie dream girl trait is that I like collecting antique science textbooks that have wrong or missing information. My favourite one has an entry for the Piltdown man as an example of ancient man noting that "experts are debating age and authenticity"

[vintagewildlife]

Kanzi the bonobo By: Unknown photographer From: Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge 1986

[sourcengine]

thgis is very quickly sketched but. monkey butch if you even care

[lionfloss]

Dusky Leaf Monkeys

[cloud-somersault]

it's 2AM and everyone's asleep - can i talk about how cool the whole "each time a celestial primate is born an anomaly happens" thing is??

because since it's so ambiguous in JTTW, it's fun to just play around with that, like other media has in the interpretations in the other 3 like.

i just think it's COOL because Wukong's eyes pierced the sky and alerted Heaven -- what other cool things could happen? and Macaque's was so.

Originally, it was going to be "And when you were born, the entire moon went dark." but that couldn't happen for a variety of reasons. The anomalies have to affect something, but it can't be lasting. It has to be something that gets the attention of the divine in a way that they immediately know "hey, something's going on."

and with MK's, it's sooo MUCH, that it drew the attention of everyone! Because, comparatively we have 1) a bright golden light, 2) a shadow falling over the moon, 3) all the stars flashing brighter for a few seconds, 4) an earthquake that shakes all the realms PLUS golden flowers blooming on the trees.

the fact that there's TWO parts is super important. I wanted that to be a showing of MK's power but also to show his nature as the celestial primate of balance. Because the trees bloomed gold in every realm to highlight his influence and duty, but the earthquake speaks to how powerful he is, how that power has to be carefully maintained or it could spiral out of control.

because I kind of just thought about the nature of the anomalies, too. Wukong's being that bright light and it piercing Heaven just makes me think of his title about being equal to Heaven, how he wanted to be recognized and respected and treated as a divine. that craving for attention.

Macaque's is subtle, a "blink and you miss it" type anomaly because it happened so fast, but it's noticeable in a way like "wait, what was that? the moonlight faded for a second" it's sneaky, it's not outright asking for attention...it's making itself known, but keeping to the night, stalking the shadows. and obvs. the moon itself being linked to the tides, Macaque being born from seafoam. It's neat!! just the symbolism that's associated with water -- wisdom, patience, restoration, guidance. it suits him so well.

Can't talk about the third one for Little Star too much, but the stars FLASHING brighter for a few seconds? all that burning gas just... getting HOTTER and more intense, lighting up the night sky??? attention grabbing for sure, but also intense. exciting, captivating, thinking, perhaps, that something wonderful is about to happen, but then it fades...

it's fun to think about it link them to their characters.

[gorillawithautism]

i wake up

i think about Him

i go back to sleep

[plixiedust]

shoutout to gibbons of all sorts gotta be my favorite primates ever can I get a hell yeah

[sennamaticart]

Some new digital gibbon valentines to match this previous set

[foxceus]

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[pigeon-butch]

every pigeon with light colored eyes looks like this to me

[jasvvy]

Gunna upload a range of photos from the zoo visit please don’t mind me

[shoechoe]

I just finished In The Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall. I wasn't expecting that to hit me so emotionally

[is-the-primate-vid-cute]

idk if we still sharin primate plushies but i bought this wild republic orang in a frenzy because he is the only orangutan plush i've seen with flanges!!! He finally arrived today and im so happy! His name is Jinga (Malay for Orange.. i think) (ps i am not choking him, i am holding gently like hamburger)

We are always taking submissions of y'all's plushies, art, photos from the zoo, etc!! ❤️ Love the flanges and him being held like a hamburger.

[spocktheestallion]

you ever catch yourself doing something and think to yourself “man i sure am a primate”

[spookymodernjazz]

favorite diurnal dlc resident go‼️

THIS IS SO HARD DONT MAKE ME CHOOSE I'm gonna do a top three instead 😭😭😭:

Remus is always Sillay and I love when he looks at me upside down

Fancy Clancy is a little stinker, but he's also always so curious and I can't STAND the way he does little ear wiggles when he's curious about something I'm doing

And then lil Mr. McAvoy is also just so dang cute and loves to try and play with me while I'm cleaning (much to the annoyance of his mama Leigh)

Honorable mention to old man Aritredes the ringtail lemur who is just such a precious little old man, Bonita the mongoose lemur who loves to watch and Inspect my work when I'm cleaning, and the family group of red ruffed lemurs Buzz, Ruby, Kitt and Hubble because I have never heard them scream (a miracle for ruffed lemurs) and they're always doing silly things whenever I see them.